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Josh Goodman: “Never do silly math like that again”

Thrive Global

Next time you’re getting a coffee or a meal, give the cashier an extra 10 dollars or 20 dollars and tell them to pay for the order of the person behind you. As part of my series about the leadership lessons of accomplished business leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Josh Goodman. The world needs more random generosity.

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should you put stay-at-home parenting on your resume, I don’t want to train my new manager, and more

Ask a Manager

Feb 2005 – May 2015. Job required strong skills in time management, dispute resolution, communication, accounting, procurement, and cost reduction. I was required to work with no supervision or coaching while making fast decisions regarding the family organization. Strange recruiter interaction.

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Are Managers Cutting It As Coaches?

HRExecutive

to attend Aon Hewitt’s Top Companies For Leaders Think Tank. In these conversations, I was struck by how often HR executives returned to the idea of helping managers adopt a “coaching mind-set” as a key component of their companies’ leadership development strategies.

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Whetstone Education CEO Libby Fischer: “Progress can’t always come from behind a desk”

Thrive Global

There’s a time and a place to sit behind your desk and stare at your. interviewing Libby Fischer. technology industry, Libby Fischer is already making a name for herself. In 2014, Libby, a Teach For America alumna, took the helm of Whetstone Education , a then-struggling technology company with a clunky teacher evaluation.

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Erin Rowe On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work

Thrive Global

With the rise of tools that can capture more employee metrics, like Allspring for career development or Peakon for employee voice surveys, organizations have more access to quantitative data to inform company goals and OKRs (objectives and key results). Thank you for making time to visit with us about the topic of our time.

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Fire Chief Dave Pratt Discusses Resilience and Motivation

Thrive Global

He began his career in his thirties in the town of Acton Ontario, as a part-time firefighter before rising through the ranks to the position of Fire Chief in the town of Milton, Ontario. In the service, you get to work as a team to come up with a solution to mitigate an emergency. I love that about my job. What keeps you motivated?

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Book Summary & Review — Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done by Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton

Workplace Psychology

having the tips & tools) employees feel more supported and more resilient in the workplace. This was Adrian Gostick’s reply: “Those 8 are our conclusions of leading sources of anxiety in the workplace based on our research and interviews. They are proprietary. It didn’t seem right to use someone else’s list as our conclusion.”